NCL announcements

6 February 2019

NCAR has made the decision to adopt Python as the scripting language platform of choice for future
development of analysis and visualization tools. Please read
this open letter to NCL
users to understand what kind of impact this will have on the
future of NCL.

16 July 2018

22 December 2017

NCAR's Yellowstone system will be decommissioned on December 31,
2017. See
the Using
NCL in the Cheyenne environment document for details on submitting NCL jobs on NCAR's new high-performance computer.

28 February 2017

Be sure to also check out the
new NCL User Guide, written
by Karin Meier-Fleischer and Michael
Böttinger of DKRZ (Deutsches
Klimarechenzentrum).

10 November 2016

We've scheduled two workshops at NCAR for 2017. For full details,
see our workshop page.

17 April 2015

On April 18, 2015 the NCAR / CISL Data Center will be shut down for
its semi-annual maintenance power-down. This activity may cause some
services, like downloading NCL from the Earth System Grid, to not be
available. See the CISL daily bulletin for more details.

2 April 2014

21 February 2014

18 February 2014

We hosted an "NCL and Shapefiles" webinar on February 13,
recorded an "NCL Website Tour" presentation on February 14. Both
are available online, with plans for more in the near future.
See NCL Webinars for more
information.

24 January 2014

The NCL team is interested in offering a set of web-based seminars
(webinars) on various topics. These webinars can be attended live, and
will be archived so you can view them later.

To provide your input on what topics you'd like to see covered, fill
out this 11-question
survey.

The first webinar is tentatively scheduled for February 13. Stay tuned
for details.

4 February 2013

21 December 2012

We will be releasing NCL version 6.1.1 in January 2013 to fix a number
of bugs, including those in the new NetCDF-4 reader. See
the "Known issues
with version 6.1.0" section for more information.

6 November 2012

The NCL workshops for 2013 are now open for registration. Limited
travel funds are available for students from universities in EPSCoR
states or minority-serving institutions. For more information, go to
the workshops page.

28 October 2012

The official release of NCL version 6.1.0 is now available.

9 July 2012

The beta release of ParNCL is coming soon. ParNCL is part
of ParVis, a DOE-funded, 3-year,
multi-agency project led by Argonne National Laboratory to develop a
suite of parallel tools for analyzing ultra-large climate datasets.

28 May 2012

The official release of NCL version 6.1.0-beta is now available.

11 April 2012

In a new NCAR initiative to promote transparent and easy access to
scientific resources, NCL has been assigned a Digital Object
Identifier (DOI). DOIs are persistent identifiers for web-based
resources. The NCL DOI, when used in URL form,
http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XH5,
provides a persistent link to the NCL web page. The benefit of DOIs is
that they are widely accepted by academic publishers as citable
locators for scholarly objects.

Please cite NCL in your publications using the following citation
(line breaks were added for clarification but the citation should be
on one line):

02 November 2011

We are pleased to announce the NCL
workshops for 2012, being held in Boulder, Colorado. We will also
be continuing the RSVP
program, which provides travel support to eligible students
and faculty members.

10 June 2011

There will be an NCL workshop held at the University of Wyoming (in
Laramie) August 16-19, 2011. For more information, visit
our workshops page.

30 May 2011

The official release of NCL version 6.0.0 is now available.

2 March 2011

There's a new release (6.0.0-beta) of NCL available.

25 October 2010

We are pleased to announce the NCL workshops for 2011, being held
in Boulder, Colorado. We will also be continuing the RSVP program
which provides travel support to eligible students. For more
information, visit NCL Workshops page.

26 July 2010

There's a new release (5.2.1) of NCL available.

14 April 2010

There's a new release (5.2.0) of NCL available.

7 Apr 2010

On Saturday, April 10th, 2010 the NCAR / CISL Data Center will be shut
down to facilitate preventative maintenance on all infrastructure
support systems. This is the normal spring season down time for this
purpose. Please note this activity is a complete shut down, scheduled
for 0600h MDT Sat 10 April 2010 until 1800h MDT Sat 10 April 2010.

Some computing systems, depending on their function, will begin their
shutdown Friday afternoon / evening and the supercomputer systems will
begin their shut down at 0001 (one minute after midnight) 4/10/2010.

This will affect anybody who needs to download NCL, PyNIO, or PyNGL
from the ESG website, or visit the www.ncl.ucar.edu or
www.pyngl.ucar.edu websites, so please make arrangements accordingly.

5 Dec 2009

28 Sep 2009

Using NCL with VAPOR to visualize WRF data

[Click on image to enlarge]

As a result of a collaboration between the NCL and VAPOR teams at
NCAR, users can now display NCL plots of WRF output in 3D, combined
with satellite images, political boundaries and other images from Web
mapping services. There's a short
tutorial to help users use this feature.

We would like to hear user feedback: Is this feature useful? Is it
easy enough to use? Is the documentation OK? Please send your
comments to ncl-talk.

We're excited to announce a new design for the NCL website!

More useful information on main page (announcements,
upcoming release, workshops).

The structure of the new web site should be almost identical to the
previous web site, so most bookmarks should still work.

Many thanks go to Adam Phillips of NCAR/CGD, who provides scientific
and programming support for both NCL and the Community Atmosphere
Model (CAM). He designed this web site in his spare time.

The previous NCL web site is still available, should you wish
to compare. It will stay up until the end of August:
http://archive.ncl.ucar.edu/

We are interested in getting your feedback.

You can send comments to Adam
and Mary. If you want to start a dialog on ncl-talk,
that's fine too. Please be respectful of the amount of email that goes
through this list, and not overwhelm it with minor issues.